by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 21, 2019 | Scam of the day
Phony text messages purporting to be from your bank or credit card company is a scam about which I have been warning you for more than six years, but appears to be a scam that is dramatically increasing. Recently, a Scamicide reader received the following text...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 21, 2019 | Scam of the day
Record numbers of people took advantage of the Amazon Prime Days shopping sales earlier this week with estimates of sales in excess of the traditional sales figures for Black Friday and Cyber Monday at the start of the holiday shopping season. Deliveries of the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 19, 2019 | Scam of the day
For years I have warned you about phony tech support scams done by scammers who establish bogus tech support websites for your favorite tech companies, such as Facebook and Instagram. By manipulating the algorithms used by Google and other search engines, the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 18, 2019 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission is warning people about an increase in scams involving scammers convincing their victims that they are eligible for large government grants if they merely pay a processing fee. This is a scam. The federal government does not charge fees...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 17, 2019 | Scam of the day
The data breach monitoring service https://haveibeenpwned.com/ which is a terrific website that enables you to see what major data breaches include your own personal information is reporting that a major data breach at Evite, a convenient social planning website for...
